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German Chancellor: US should close Guantanamo Bay prison camp
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-07 21:10

German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a statement at the Chancellery in Berlin in this January 3, 2006 file photo. Merkel, in an interview published days before her first visit to the United States, said Washington should close its Guantanamo Bay prison camp and find other ways of dealing with terror suspects. "An institution like Guantanamo can and should not exist in the longer term," Merkel said in an interview with the weekly magazine Der Spiegel published on January 7, 2006.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a statement at the Chancellery in Berlin in this January 3, 2006 file photo. Merkel, in an interview published days before her first visit to the United States, said Washington should close its Guantanamo Bay prison camp and find other ways of dealing with terror suspects. "An institution like Guantanamo can and should not exist in the longer term," Merkel said in an interview with the weekly magazine Der Spiegel published on January 7, 2006. [Reuters]


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